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Memoir of a Map of Ireland. Illustrating the Topography of that Kingdom (1792)

Daniel Beaufort

Item ID:56916

Category: History, Local History, MAPS

€495.00

Memoir of a Map of Ireland. Illustrating the Topography of that Kingdom, and containing a Short Account of its Present State, Civil and Ecclesiastical; with a complete index to the Map. London: W. Faden, 1792. First edition. Pp, 147, index, 71 & errata. Folded coloured map of Ireland. Small Folio. Rebound in half leather and marbled boards. Riased bands with title lables stamped in gilt to compartments. Lightl dust soiling and marking to title page and last page of index, otherwise a very good copy. "A exceedingly valuable work, containing a succinct accout of the civil and ecclesiastical state of Ireland and an index of all the places which appear on the author's map." The author was the father of Sir Francis Beaufort who give his name to the 'Beaufort Scale' of wind force.